A Model Undergraduate Project for Women in Engineering

加州大学戴维斯分校的工程学院与女工程师协会萨克拉门托山谷分会合作，正在开发、测试、评估和改进活动，以提高女本科生在工程专业的坚持率。该项目以学院数量可观的女学生和女教师为基础；它的专业员工在建立成功的工程项目和建立良好的数学和科学女性校园网络方面拥有丰富的经验。它解决了女学生、女教师和女专业工程师指出的对妇女继续从事工程工作产生不利影响的下列因素：孤立、无法看到高度理论性的基础课程的相关性、在实验课程中的消极经历、“冷淡”的课堂气氛和缺乏榜样。评估将与校园妇女资源和研究中心合作进行。活动包括：“为工程专业女性准备的棕色包午餐”，以解决大一和大二工程专业学生所经历的孤立；“在工作中跟随女工程师”，以抵消大一和大二高度理论化课程的负面影响；开设新课程“事物如何运作”，以克服女学生在事物如何运作和男性文化如何运作方面缺乏社会化所造成的不足；“改善课堂气氛”，这是一个针对男性工程教师的教师研讨会，旨在使他们对工程教室的“寒心”动态敏感；以及“本科生研究”，这是一项持续的努力，旨在帮助工科女学生认识到她们所学的知识如何应用于“真正的工程”，并鼓励她们在研究生学习中运用自己的能力。活动的设计是这样的，一旦经过测试和改进，它们就可以很容易地在其他大学校园复制。确定项目有效性的可测量目标包括：o将对妇女参加者的坚持和毕业率与未参加该项目的任何组成部分的妇女的坚持和毕业率进行比较。

The College of Engineering at the University of California, Davis, in cooperation with the Sacramento Valley Section of the Society of Women Engineers, is developing, testing, evaluating and refining activities to increase the rate of perseverance of female undergraduate students in engineering. The project builds on the College's significant number of women students and faculty members; its professional staff members who have extensive experience in establishing successful programs in engineering and the well-established campus networks for women in math and science. It addresses the following factors identified by women students, faculty and professional engineers that negatively affect the persistence of women in engineering: isolation, an inability to see the relevance of highly theoretical basic courses, negative experiences in laboratory courses, the "cold" classroom climate and the lack of role models. Evaluation will be done in cooperation with the campus Women's Resource and Research Center. Activities include: "Brown Bag Lunches for Women in Engineering" to address the isolation experienced by freshman and sophomore engineering students; "Shadowing Women Engineers at Work" to counter the negative effects of the highly theoretical courses in the freshman and sophomore years; a new course, "How Things Work" to overcome deficiencies resulting from women students' lack of socialization in how things work and in how male culture works; "Enhancing the Classroom Climate", a faculty workshop for male engineering faculty to sensitize them to the "chilling" dynamics of engineering classrooms; and, Undergraduate Research, a continuing effort to help women engineering students realize how what they have learned applies in "real engineering and to encourage them to use their abilities in graduate study. Activities are designed so that, once tested and refined, they can easily be replicated on other university campuses. Measurable Objectives to determine the effectiveness of the project include: o The persistence and graduation rates of women participants will be compared with the persistence and graduation rates of women who did not participate in any component of the project.